'Jesus came to show us who we are. And somehow showing us who we are has gradually changed into telling us how to behave.' – Arvellius Cambriensis, 415 AD

This is the story the church will not want you to read.Heresy is a vivid account of a turning point in history, when Christianity changed from serving the truth to manipulating it. One man realised the danger and tried to avert it.

Reviled in his lifetime as a heretic by the Catholic Church, Pelagius was forgotten for more than a thousand years.But in the second half of the twentieth century the itinerant scholar’s reputation has been rehabilitated after the discovery that he wrote some of the most prized essays and letters of the late Roman Empire.Long ascribed to other, more orthodox writers, these works show that free will is central to Pelagius’s beliefs.For more information, click on the Heresy button above.